Pietro Giuseppe Briot.

Letter from the Mayor of Calabria, Pierre-Joseph Briot, answering to John Stuart, Count of Maida, regarding the security and public order in the province of Calabria. Signed in Cosenza, on June 21st, 1809. Pierre-Joseph Briot (1771-1827) was a French revolutionary and a major political figure. He was a member of the Freemasons of Besançon. During its presence in Calabria, he created a new home of Carbonari. Carbonarism (for Italy) or Carbonari (for France) is an initiatory secret and movement, politically charged, which contributed to the unification of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Sir John Stuart, Count of Maida GCB (1759-1815), was a British Lieutenant-General during the Napoleonic Wars.

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